Marylin Manson nearly retired from his music career after splitting from his wife.

The goth rocker, who split from dancer Dita Von Tesse at the end of last year, admitted that he lost his way after the break-up and began to find recording an "unfulfilling" experience.

"I was convincing myself I didn't want to do music," he said. "I started to associate it with something that was unfulfilling. It came with the territory of my marriage in which I was expected to fix things about myself that I didn't realise the other person considered faults. I didn't know who I was supposed to be."

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However, he ultimately admitted that he couldn't resist making another album, if only to express his emotions: "Ultimately, I realised I wanted to make a record that I could listen to that would make me feel a certain way. I've never listened to my music before because it was such a long process to make it, it seemed unnecessary."